Guardian Alien and Pontiak go on tour together, play Look Alive Festival together, release records in January together, all in string of improbable coincidences

Hey, Tiny Mix Tapes audience. I was just looking over my papers and noticed something odd. Pontiak are going on tour this December. This is not odd. Guardian Alien are going on tour this December. Again, not odd. But when I really give these tour dates a long, hard look, I’ve noticed that most of these dates are exactly the same. Some of them aren’t, some include Pontiak and not Guardian Alien, others vice versa. Most of these dates are, in fact, at the same place on the same night at the same time. They’re even both playing Miami’s Look Alive festival! It is as if the two are touring together.

Now that I’ve provided a plausible explanation, let me blow it to bits. It would be enough if the two were only playing the same tour dates. As it turns out, this case goes deeper, down through multiple layers of story sediment. Both bands are actually releasing new albums this coming January. Little information about these upcoming albums exists yet, except for one bit that will destroy your entire brain. Both albums are being released by Thrill Jockey. With that in mind, we can chalk up all these intersections in the fates of these two bands to one thing: mostly coincidence. There, I have answered everything.